Take this as a sort of security drill: MPEx is untouchable.
uh huh... whatever you say, kid.Redirecting DDoS traffic to a government site is poetry.
They hit it too, for maybe half a minute. It was just about to turn into a lot more than poetry, but someone somehow had the idea of checking (probably looking to see if it domain answers - and it did). To quote,
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Mar 07 00:35:37 is that going to redirect the ddos to wh?
Mar 07 00:35:41 no right?
Mar 07 00:35:52 i imagine yes.
Mar 07 00:36:01 mpex.co -> http://www.whitehouse.gov LMAO
Mar 07 00:36:22 i figure i got a 1% shot of making us national news.
Mar 07 00:36:26 heh
Mar 07 00:36:36 its a very clever idea
Mar 07 00:36:43 lol, that actually worked.
Mar 07 00:37:03 WE GET SIGNAL
Mar 07 00:35:41 no right?
Mar 07 00:35:52 i imagine yes.
Mar 07 00:36:01 mpex.co -> http://www.whitehouse.gov LMAO
Mar 07 00:36:22 i figure i got a 1% shot of making us national news.
Mar 07 00:36:26 heh
Mar 07 00:36:36 its a very clever idea
Mar 07 00:36:43 lol, that actually worked.
Mar 07 00:37:03 WE GET SIGNAL
Must have pissed off Anonymous somehow. Everyone knows that they are responsible for all hacks.
HACK THE PLANET
HACK THE PLANET
Its more likely to be Something Awful who hacked it. Because MP was an idiot and challenged them.
Wait, so a DDOS attack is a "hack" now?
Please go to http://mpex.coinbr.com, a web proxy to the MPEx backend, and tell me if it's been "hacked".
I must say this thread's been pretty entertaining so far.
Redirect or DNS change? I don't think dos-bots follow redirects.
It was dns change. This was a real ddos, it took out routing infrastructure not cpus. Consequently a "redirect" would have never gotten talked to in the first place.
Yeah, unless the DDoS consisted of an iframe and a timer it didn't really serve any purpose other than the lol factor. I'm surprised how MPOE prices haven't being affected much, but that's pretty offtopic so I'll stop here 
The attack consisted of more bw than the aggregate consumption of all Bitcoin services for a month, except dished out during a day. Notably, it wasn't nearly as large as the January one (which you haven't heard about - also notably) but it was a lot more intelligently deployed. By the time the WH dns change came about the attacker and the techs had been playing cat-and-mouse for hours already. In non-tech terms it was a game of flip the potato here's suddenly a hand grenade.
30btc makes sense when it was $5
MPEx has stated on several occasions that the entry price is only going to go up. It already went from 20 btc to 30 btc. How much does it cost to get a seat on the NYSE?
how many times NYSE was DDoS or deface ?
Roughly speaking five hundred times so far.